Strange Weather in Tokyo

Hiromi-Kawakami

Granta Books

The Third Love

Literature & Fiction

Literary

The Nakano Thrift Shop

Portobello Books, London, England

From the best-selling author of Strange Weather in Tokyo comes a collection of playful, delightful, delectable Japanese micro-fiction.\nTake a story and shrink it. Make it tiny, so small it can fit in the palm of your hand. Carry the story with you everywhere, let it sit with you while you eat, let it watch you while you sleep. Keep it safe, you never know when you might need it.\nIn Kawakami's super short 'palm of the hand' stories the world is never quite as it should be: a small child lives under a sheet near his neighbour's house for thirty years; an apartment block leaves its visitors with strange afflictions, from fast-growing beards to an ability to channel the voices of the dead; an old man has two shadows, one docile, the other rebellious; two girls named Yoko are locked in a bitter rivalry to the death.\nSmall but great, you'll find great delight spending time with the people in this neighbourhood.

People From My Neighbourhood: Hiromi Kawakami

Contemporary

Granta

Shortlisted for the 2013 Man Asian Literary Prize, Strange Weather in Tokyo is a story of loneliness and love that defies age. Tsukiko, 38, works in an office and lives alone. One night, she happens to meet one of her former high school teachers, "Sensei," in a local bar. Tsukiko had only ever called him "Sensei" ("Teacher"). He is 30 years her senior, retired, and presumably a widower. Their relationship develops from a perfunctory acknowledgment of each other as they eat and drink alone at the bar, to a hesitant intimacy, which tilts awkwardly and poignantly into love. As Tsukiko and Sensei grow to know and love one another, time's passing is marked by Kawakami's gentle hints at the changing seasons: from warm sake to chilled beer, from the buds on the trees to the blooming of the cherry blossoms. Strange Weather in Tokyo is a moving, funny, and immersive tale of modern Japan and old-fashioned romance.

Audible Studios on Brilliance Audio

Les années douces tome 1 (French Edition)

Comics & Graphic Novels

Jiro, Taniguchi

Manga

French and European Publications Inc

神様 2011 [Kamisama 2011]

川上弘美

講談社

Cast goodbye slowly (Mass Market Paperback) (2004) ISBN: 4101292337 [Japanese Import]

ToÌ„kyoÌ„ : ShinchoÌ„sha, 2004

センセイの鞄 (文春文庫)

BUNGEISHUNJU LTD.

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